https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Public-sector-strike-in-Italy-is-a-strike-for-everyone https://internationalviewpoint.org/Public-sector-strike-in-Italy-is-a-strike-for-everyone 2020-12-22T10:13:15Z text/html en Fabrizio Dogliotti Italy Trade unions/workplace organizing <p>Do you remember last spring? The "first wave", flags, songs on balconies, "everything will be fine"? Someone even thought - and said - that something good should come out of this story, that nothing could ever be the same again. A kind of promise of change was in the air. Rubbish!</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV551-December-2020-" rel="directory">IV551 - December 2020</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Italy-+" rel="tag">Italy</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Trade-unions-workplace-organizing-+" rel="tag">Trade unions/workplace organizing</a> https://internationalviewpoint.org/Covid-in-Calabria-an-Italian-parable https://internationalviewpoint.org/Covid-in-Calabria-an-Italian-parable 2020-12-04T09:44:01Z text/html en Fabrizio Dogliotti Italy Covid-19 Pandemic <p>“Hunger and despair on their own do not necessarily lead to revolution.”</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV551-December-2020-" rel="directory">IV551 - December 2020</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Italy-+" rel="tag">Italy</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Covid-19-Pandemic-+" rel="tag">Covid-19 Pandemic</a> https://internationalviewpoint.org/Phase-2-and-first-mobilizations https://internationalviewpoint.org/Phase-2-and-first-mobilizations 2020-06-05T06:27:49Z text/html en Fabrizio Dogliotti Italy Trade unions/workplace organizing Covid-19 Pandemic <p>While restaurants, bars and pizzerias reopen, and the Confindustria employers' organization and the leaders of the FCA (formerly Fiat) claim, even more cynically than usual and despite the harshness of the times, the right to reap profits counted in billions and tax gifts, a new wind - even if it is a light one - seems to be blowing among the workers.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV545-June-2020-" rel="directory">IV545 - June 2020</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Italy-+" rel="tag">Italy</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Trade-unions-workplace-organizing-+" rel="tag">Trade unions/workplace organizing</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Covid-19-Pandemic-+" rel="tag">Covid-19 Pandemic</a>